Violin Master Class with Sylvia Danburg Volpe, Catherine Ro, Katherine Fong - MET Orchestra Musicians Master Classes
MET Orchestra Musicians Master Classes
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Program
– August 2, 2020: Violin
– Panelists: Sylvia Danburg Volpe, Catherine Ro, Katherine Fong
– Performers: Elizabeth Hamilton, Clark Snavely, Abigail Yoon
Ysaÿe: Sonata No. 2; III. Danse des Ombres
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor; III. Allegro con fuoco
Saint-Saëns: Havanaise
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Violin: August 2, 2020
Sylvia Danburg Volpe - Associate Principal 2nd Violin
Sylvia Danburg Volpe joined the orchestra as Associate Principal Second Violin in the year 2000. A native of Houston, Texas, she began her undergraduate studies with Ken Goldsmith at the Shepard School of Music at Rice University, and completed her Bachelor of Music at Juilliard with Glenn Dicterow. She made her New York solo debut at Alice Tully Hall in 1996, where she was praised by the New York Times for “beautiful tone — both lyricism and virtuosity”.
Catherine Ro
Catherine Ro, violinist in the Metropolitan Opera, has established herself as an active chamber musician, soloist, and recitalist. Her concerts have taken her all around the globe to such countries as Russia, Finland, Lithuania, Spain, France, Portugal, China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea. Ms. Ro made her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. As a chamber musician, she performs regularly at Musique et Vin au Clos Vougeot, held in the Burgundy region of France, since its inception. In addition, she has performed at Carnegie Hall with the MET Chamber Ensemble under James Levine. Ms. Ro received her Bachelor and Master degrees from the Juilliard School, where she was a teaching fellow and assistant to Dorothy DeLay. She studied with Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, Felix Galimir, and Zaven Melikian.
Katherine Fong
Violinist Katherine Fong has been a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 2000. A native of Amarillo, Texas, she began playing at age four. Katherine leads a multifaceted existence as an orchestral musician, chamber musician, soloist, entrepreneur, and mother. In addition to the Metropolitan Opera season, Katherine frequently performs as soloist in Bogotá with the Orquesta Nacional de Colombia and runs her company Luxitune, designing bejeweled fine tuners for string instruments. She has performed with the Met Chamber Ensemble and Maestro James Levine at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. Katherine received a Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Eric Rosenblith, and continued her studies with Cho-Liang Lin and Joel Smirnoff at the Juilliard School, where she received her Master of Music degree.
THE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA
Thrilling audiences with more than 200 performances each season, the MET Orchestra is one of the world’s great performing ensembles, both on stage and in the opera pit. Since its founding in 1883, the MET Orchestra’s performances have encompassed not only the entire opera repertoire, but symphonic and chamber programs at Carnegie Hall, international tours, and countless musician activities outside of the Metropolitan Opera House. The MET Orchestra has grown in the past four decades into an ensemble noted by singers, critics, conductors, and audiences as one of today’s most stylistically versatile and musically satisfying orchestras.
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